Abstract
We aimed to evaluate the relationship between serum leptin and the leptin/body mass index (BMI) ratio with prevalent cardiovascular disease (CVD), and their influence on all-cause and CVD-related mortality in patients on hemodialysis (HD).
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 206-212 |
Numero di pagine | 7 |
Rivista | Nefrología : publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española Nefrologia |
Volume | 31 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2011 |
Keywords
- Aged
- Body Mass Index
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cause of Death
- Cohort Studies
- Comorbidity
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Italy
- Kaplan-Meier Estimate
- Kidney Failure, Chronic
- Leptin
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mortality
- Obesity
- Proportional Hazards Models
- Prospective Studies
- Renal Dialysis
- Risk Factors
- Spain
- Statistics, Nonparametric